The concept of the 'pixel perfect jump' disappears to a great extent in the 3D space. Sonic, Mario etc... in 2D could be a brilliant balance of flat out random jumping and running with slower, reactive pixel perfect leaps.
The visuals for these could be hugely tightly controlled, as the developers knew exactly where the gamer would spend most time, and need the most accurate visual queues. The big snail slowly wandering left to right could be jumped in one if you stood on THAT pixel and jumped when the snail was just about to turn... THERE!
In 3D you have wandering camera angles, zoom factors, cards giving differing qualities of representation. Everything is NOT precicely as the developer intended.
To enjoy computer games is to enjoy precision. If you cant represent a world precisely enough youd better make success a bit easier to avoid pissing people off. Your Metroid example is spot on. The visuals are far from whooly, but they lack the crispness of the original.
As for collossion detection! Theres a corner in TOCA Race Driver 2 where I keep catching the barrier - even though I can see clear air between my car and the barrier as I hit it! BASTARD thing! They better fix that in the next patch!
self-regulating Pah! People cant self regulate everything. I HATE McDonalds. I want to be sure that when I walk past a McDonalds to go into a restaurant that I'm not missing out on some nice food. If copyright and its sublings werent respected I'd never know a genuine 'turd in a bun' McDonalds from what could be a very tasty emporium of quality nosh.
I could be in an airport book shop, pick up a copy of 'collected robot stories by the man azimov' and find its a pile of autotranslated japanese gay porn.
Quite - you can tell this thing is awful as no on so far down this thread has created a mirror. Never a good sign.
His carpentry isnt even up to scratch. He could have really gone to town with an ingenious design here, he probably started down that line and just thought 'fuck it - I'll shove em in a big box'
On the face of it, yes. In fact, the cost of moving for the vast legions of Google users who dont even know what a search engine IS and refer to searching as googling is huge!
TV presenters, Radio presenters etc... all refer to 'Googling' now. The cost of moving to a better search engine is non conformance and a lack of confidence that they are getting everything they should be out of their internet.
If the world 'Googles' for information - the cost of changing is irrelevent. Resistance is futile.
And at what point does Mozilla decide to remove the default shortcut Google searches in favour of the fabby new 'assman.com' searches?
This is a dangerous line of thought to pursue. I have lost many many many friends through my habit of expressing this opinion at length about all competitive sports from cycling to F1 to Javelin.
Imagine how cool the Javelin would be if it were a combination of throwing skills and design. It would be like scrapheap challenge:-D all sorts of little wings and shit.
F1 with rules like "4 wheels, one driver, one engine" and maybe a "must fit in a box " would also be rather good fun. Ferrari kick ass at the moment because they have the best driver AND he knows how to manage his engineering team to give him the best motor. Multiply that by a MILLION and I think we'd have some entertaininng racing. If the driver wants to be safe he should build in safety - not be told which safety features to use. Stop treating F1 drivers like little poofs!
My house isnt too energy saving - although the addition of a few measures has improved matters somwhat.
It was however built in 1880 and will likely last another couple of hundred years being made of those robust materials Granite and Slate.
I wonder what the full balanced result would be of having one miodestly energy efficient home for 300 years, or rebuilding an energy efficient one 12 times in that period.
I suspect the building of temporary homes causes a fairly large additional energy cost. Not to mention living in hostile environments like Texas!! Find somewhere with a nice climate folks!!;-)
My cellphone is 3 weeks old, my PC is 3 months old, my laptop is approaching 3 years old, my stereo equipment is about 5 years old, my fridge is 9 months, my vaccuum is 3 months old. My car is about 10, I've had it 4. My house is about 140. My woman is about 30, I've had her for about 10. My favourite jeans are 2 years old. My favourite Tshirt is 15 years old. On that list I feel compelled to trade in only one item for a younger model.
Can now be written absolutely ANYWHERE in central london:-D I just need to get one of these, write a script to post 'dave is a cunt' every 30 seconds, and spend a day on my pushbike!
I wonder how it will work on elevators! "floor 2: Dave is a cunt" "floor 3: Davis is still a cunt"
Can you say 'cunt' half a dozen times in a/. post without being automatically burnt to death? I may well find out!
I see your point. However. BBC2 shows comedy on a Monday night that is usually less mainstream than the comedy shown on CHannel4 on a Friday night. Any comedy thats on Sky One will end up on Channel4 within the year if its good - never if its bad. Quirky / niche stuff will be shown post midnight on 2 or 4. Anything on BBC1 is shit. Anything on ITV1 is shit.
The channels help me filter.
ITV says 'middle of the road safe family crap' better than any meta data the producers will volunteer!
i do believe you'll find that NSync are hardly 'of the day' anymore my friend! I know the old ones - due to passive exposure to 'youth oriented' mass media - which I now avoid.
This is a significant problem - especially if micropayment systems are made as easy to implement as, say, the google adwords system.
Johnny Bee - the world famous 15 year old mixmaster - opens a site offering MP3s of his latest crappy homebrew mixes for a micropayment of 10c. His site serves out of his DSL and fails to serve 50% of the MP3s requested.
I'm also a kid. I like Johnny Bee. Well - I found him on Google and throught it was cool to rap about muthafuckas in the context of a spelling bee. I just clicked 'download for 10c' so I could shock my parents with my taste in music. I'm stupid. The download fails. I click the link again. I click refresh. I click the link again. Ad infinitum.
Oops - I just spent 20 dollars on fuck all! Bummer.
You know your getting old when you have no clue who the current 'boy band du jour' is - and worse - have no clue who to even ASK.
Maybe little gay asok down the corridor will know!!
There may be crass puns at stake! I must find out. Searching iTunes for 'shit boy band of the moment' only brought up BUSTED!!! wtf!
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To me - painting free walls is just 'doing a big painting - probably with spray cans'. Big Deal.
Tagging an illegible nickname on a wall beside a road is just. well. scrawling your name on something. Big Deal.
Dropping an image / word / phrase into a strange context which is thought provoking or even just plain funny is a much bigger deal to me. SImple silhouettes, slogans, even a simple 'cock and balls' can be beautiful if well placed. Be it on a blank wall, over someones 'grafiti art' or on the tits of the wonderbra chick. I've seen a copy of one of Steve Bells cartoon from the Guardian sprayed on a railway siding on the SAME DAY it was published.
I know I should give up/. will suck for all time it usually feels like a special needs class got mixed up with the special achievement class - and the teacher spends all her time making sure her sleeves havent ridden up to reveal her junky status
some day a new teacher will come in, whip us all into shape, and euthanise the special needers
You have to treat the word documentary as it is commonly used, at least here in the UK, to describe any TV programme, film, or radio piece which covers a real life subject.
The reasonably aware viewer / listener will know that the documentary maker is likely to be biased. In order to be interested enough in a subject one must hold opinions. The extent to which this bias skews the content is the important factor. Moores films are so obviously one sided, and arguing a point that this is in little doubt.
Were Moore a shiftier character, I feel he would present a supposedly balanced view, with just enough skew to persuade. Whatever I think of his politics I respect his all out bias.
I would still call it a documentary though. Just as I would call those gushing obituaries to Reagan documentaries. They document something. They are biased as hell, but they are documentary.
I can't see how this comes even close to News for Nerds,
I have to disagree - that a DOCUMENTARY (admittedly an sensationalist entertainment led documentary) is opening on so many screens in intellectual backwater that is mainstream US multiplex is pretty damn good news for the nerdy populace!
This is a fact / interpretation of facts based movie, with a relatively minor distributor, beating 'the man' to an extent by even being released.
If some shit Mangaporn going to DVD is news, then Im sure as hell that a major documentary opening is. That said - if the/. editors could come up with a more refined presentation of the article - ie give it some POINT - we'd be discussing the movie, the distribution, the SOMETHING instead of just discussing wether this is okay to discuss!
If gas prices were in line with those in Europe your value model would change entirely. I live just outside town, and do a ~30 mile loop 5 days a week. Weekends vary from 0 to '00s of miles.
I fill my tank roughly weekly - costing me ~45. Thats about US75-80 a week according to my calcs. $80/wk ~= $4000 / yr. If I drive the same car for 4 years thats $12000. Not too far short of the $14000 asking price for the sparrow. I got me a free car!!
But when its cheaper to fill your tank with iraqi oil then whats the point?
The smart car is a low selling, rather dinky car which is VERY popular with businesses around here. Any company that needs to get its people around quite quickly- but doesnt need them to haul a tonne of stuff - seems to be buying one of these and covering it in logos.
They have low running costs, have an environmental cool image, show forward / independent thinking, and are noticable on the road. They do a pretty good job.
They are SCARY to drive at anything over 60mph though - you feel like your only touching the road about 20% of the time! But theyre not really built for that!
This is a niche this little monkey should be aimed at - corp city runarounds.
PSX was introduced by Sony as there are usage 'worries' over the name PlayStation. Which is why the 2 is normally called the PS2 - certainly in Europe.
PS3 is on its way, which, if I remember my Edge areticle properly wont have the Playstation name anywhere near it. I think its a Nintendo thing. That Mario bastard has some of Warios genes you know - mustachiod prick!
I didnt say it was surprising - but I really dont like the way they look. but perhaps thats because I think the mark 2 golf looks leagues better than the new mark 5 (i think its 5). and the skodas look like a bit of a midpoint between the 5 and a potato
Slashdot Mirror
thanks for that contribution - I appreciate it - you are clearly the man!
The concept of the 'pixel perfect jump' disappears to a great extent in the 3D space. Sonic, Mario etc... in 2D could be a brilliant balance of flat out random jumping and running with slower, reactive pixel perfect leaps.
The visuals for these could be hugely tightly controlled, as the developers knew exactly where the gamer would spend most time, and need the most accurate visual queues. The big snail slowly wandering left to right could be jumped in one if you stood on THAT pixel and jumped when the snail was just about to turn... THERE!
In 3D you have wandering camera angles, zoom factors, cards giving differing qualities of representation. Everything is NOT precicely as the developer intended.
To enjoy computer games is to enjoy precision. If you cant represent a world precisely enough youd better make success a bit easier to avoid pissing people off. Your Metroid example is spot on. The visuals are far from whooly, but they lack the crispness of the original.
As for collossion detection! Theres a corner in TOCA Race Driver 2 where I keep catching the barrier - even though I can see clear air between my car and the barrier as I hit it! BASTARD thing! They better fix that in the next patch!
self-regulating
Pah! People cant self regulate everything. I HATE McDonalds. I want to be sure that when I walk past a McDonalds to go into a restaurant that I'm not missing out on some nice food. If copyright and its sublings werent respected I'd never know a genuine 'turd in a bun' McDonalds from what could be a very tasty emporium of quality nosh.
I could be in an airport book shop, pick up a copy of 'collected robot stories by the man azimov' and find its a pile of autotranslated japanese gay porn.
Copyright has its uses!
Quite - you can tell this thing is awful as no on so far down this thread has created a mirror. Never a good sign.
His carpentry isnt even up to scratch. He could have really gone to town with an ingenious design here, he probably started down that line and just thought 'fuck it - I'll shove em in a big box'
you jest - but MAN I'd love one of those. Of me - not you - obviously - you might be fat!!!!
If you think about it, the cost of moving is 0
On the face of it, yes. In fact, the cost of moving for the vast legions of Google users who dont even know what a search engine IS and refer to searching as googling is huge!
TV presenters, Radio presenters etc... all refer to 'Googling' now. The cost of moving to a better search engine is non conformance and a lack of confidence that they are getting everything they should be out of their internet.
If the world 'Googles' for information - the cost of changing is irrelevent. Resistance is futile.
And at what point does Mozilla decide to remove the default shortcut Google searches in favour of the fabby new 'assman.com' searches?
Stickiness is not only down to monetary costs
This is a dangerous line of thought to pursue. I have lost many many many friends through my habit of expressing this opinion at length about all competitive sports from cycling to F1 to Javelin.
:-D all sorts of little wings and shit.
Imagine how cool the Javelin would be if it were a combination of throwing skills and design. It would be like scrapheap challenge
F1 with rules like "4 wheels, one driver, one engine" and maybe a "must fit in a box " would also be rather good fun. Ferrari kick ass at the moment because they have the best driver AND he knows how to manage his engineering team to give him the best motor. Multiply that by a MILLION and I think we'd have some entertaininng racing. If the driver wants to be safe he should build in safety - not be told which safety features to use. Stop treating F1 drivers like little poofs!
SEEE - I'm off again!!! Grrrrrrr
My house isnt too energy saving - although the addition of a few measures has improved matters somwhat.
;-)
It was however built in 1880 and will likely last another couple of hundred years being made of those robust materials Granite and Slate.
I wonder what the full balanced result would be of having one miodestly energy efficient home for 300 years, or rebuilding an energy efficient one 12 times in that period.
I suspect the building of temporary homes causes a fairly large additional energy cost. Not to mention living in hostile environments like Texas!! Find somewhere with a nice climate folks!!
My cellphone is 3 weeks old, my PC is 3 months old, my laptop is approaching 3 years old, my stereo equipment is about 5 years old, my fridge is 9 months, my vaccuum is 3 months old. My car is about 10, I've had it 4. My house is about 140. My woman is about 30, I've had her for about 10. My favourite jeans are 2 years old. My favourite Tshirt is 15 years old.
On that list I feel compelled to trade in only one item for a younger model.
... is a cunt"
:-D I just need to get one of these, write a script to post 'dave is a cunt' every 30 seconds, and spend a day on my pushbike!
/. post without being automatically burnt to death? I may well find out!
Can now be written absolutely ANYWHERE in central london
I wonder how it will work on elevators! "floor 2: Dave is a cunt" "floor 3: Davis is still a cunt"
Can you say 'cunt' half a dozen times in a
I see your point. However. BBC2 shows comedy on a Monday night that is usually less mainstream than the comedy shown on CHannel4 on a Friday night. Any comedy thats on Sky One will end up on Channel4 within the year if its good - never if its bad. Quirky / niche stuff will be shown post midnight on 2 or 4. Anything on BBC1 is shit. Anything on ITV1 is shit.
The channels help me filter.
ITV says 'middle of the road safe family crap' better than any meta data the producers will volunteer!
GQ - decent men's magazine, although the US edition is noticebly dumbed down in comparison with the UK edition.
How dumbed down can 'nice tits' get??
I agree
i do believe you'll find that NSync are hardly 'of the day' anymore my friend! I know the old ones - due to passive exposure to 'youth oriented' mass media - which I now avoid.
This is a significant problem - especially if micropayment systems are made as easy to implement as, say, the google adwords system.
Johnny Bee - the world famous 15 year old mixmaster - opens a site offering MP3s of his latest crappy homebrew mixes for a micropayment of 10c. His site serves out of his DSL and fails to serve 50% of the MP3s requested.
I'm also a kid. I like Johnny Bee. Well - I found him on Google and throught it was cool to rap about muthafuckas in the context of a spelling bee. I just clicked 'download for 10c' so I could shock my parents with my taste in music. I'm stupid. The download fails. I click the link again. I click refresh. I click the link again. Ad infinitum.
Oops - I just spent 20 dollars on fuck all! Bummer.
You know your getting old when you have no clue who the current 'boy band du jour' is - and worse - have no clue who to even ASK.
Maybe little gay asok down the corridor will know!!
There may be crass puns at stake! I must find out. Searching iTunes for 'shit boy band of the moment' only brought up BUSTED!!! wtf!
To me - painting free walls is just 'doing a big painting - probably with spray cans'. Big Deal.
Tagging an illegible nickname on a wall beside a road is just. well. scrawling your name on something. Big Deal.
Dropping an image / word / phrase into a strange context which is thought provoking or even just plain funny is a much bigger deal to me. SImple silhouettes, slogans, even a simple 'cock and balls' can be beautiful if well placed. Be it on a blank wall, over someones 'grafiti art' or on the tits of the wonderbra chick.
I've seen a copy of one of Steve Bells cartoon from the Guardian sprayed on a railway siding on the SAME DAY it was published.
Grafiti is good - but blandomatic grafiti sucks.
I know /. will suck for all time
I should give up
it usually feels like a special needs class got mixed up with the special achievement class - and the teacher spends all her time making sure her sleeves havent ridden up to reveal her junky status
some day a new teacher will come in, whip us all into shape, and euthanise the special needers
You have to treat the word documentary as it is commonly used, at least here in the UK, to describe any TV programme, film, or radio piece which covers a real life subject.
The reasonably aware viewer / listener will know that the documentary maker is likely to be biased. In order to be interested enough in a subject one must hold opinions. The extent to which this bias skews the content is the important factor. Moores films are so obviously one sided, and arguing a point that this is in little doubt.
Were Moore a shiftier character, I feel he would present a supposedly balanced view, with just enough skew to persuade. Whatever I think of his politics I respect his all out bias.
I would still call it a documentary though. Just as I would call those gushing obituaries to Reagan documentaries. They document something. They are biased as hell, but they are documentary.
I can't see how this comes even close to News for Nerds,
/. editors could come up with a more refined presentation of the article - ie give it some POINT - we'd be discussing the movie, the distribution, the SOMETHING instead of just discussing wether this is okay to discuss!
I have to disagree - that a DOCUMENTARY (admittedly an sensationalist entertainment led documentary) is opening on so many screens in intellectual backwater that is mainstream US multiplex is pretty damn good news for the nerdy populace!
This is a fact / interpretation of facts based movie, with a relatively minor distributor, beating 'the man' to an extent by even being released.
If some shit Mangaporn going to DVD is news, then Im sure as hell that a major documentary opening is. That said - if the
If the price were around $3,000 I'd consider it.
If gas prices were in line with those in Europe your value model would change entirely. I live just outside town, and do a ~30 mile loop 5 days a week. Weekends vary from 0 to '00s of miles.
I fill my tank roughly weekly - costing me ~45. Thats about US75-80 a week according to my calcs. $80/wk ~= $4000 / yr. If I drive the same car for 4 years thats $12000. Not too far short of the $14000 asking price for the sparrow. I got me a free car!!
But when its cheaper to fill your tank with iraqi oil then whats the point?
The smart car is a low selling, rather dinky car which is VERY popular with businesses around here. Any company that needs to get its people around quite quickly- but doesnt need them to haul a tonne of stuff - seems to be buying one of these and covering it in logos.
They have low running costs, have an environmental cool image, show forward / independent thinking, and are noticable on the road. They do a pretty good job.
They are SCARY to drive at anything over 60mph though - you feel like your only touching the road about 20% of the time! But theyre not really built for that!
This is a niche this little monkey should be aimed at - corp city runarounds.
But they're usually Foster's, which you'd have to pay me to drink
You beer slut!
PSX was introduced by Sony as there are usage 'worries' over the name PlayStation. Which is why the 2 is normally called the PS2 - certainly in Europe.
PS3 is on its way, which, if I remember my Edge areticle properly wont have the Playstation name anywhere near it. I think its a Nintendo thing. That Mario bastard has some of Warios genes you know - mustachiod prick!
I didnt say it was surprising - but I really dont like the way they look. but perhaps thats because I think the mark 2 golf looks leagues better than the new mark 5 (i think its 5). and the skodas look like a bit of a midpoint between the 5 and a potato